Many more coming across the Channel as we speak! Iran, China, Russia, North Korea spies and thousands of islamist terrorists being let in. What is the plan bus conductor, our safety & security is shot

What happened to National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ's)? #bbcnews #bbcpm City and Guilds? Ordinary, Higher, National Diplomas and Certificates? We had all that in the past, who destroyed it?! Back to the future with Lucy & Labour!

Streeting: Public “Shouldn’t Be Scared” of Tax Rises for Burnham’s Social Care #bbcnews #bbcpm order-order.com/2026/09/28/s… It is to those who have to pay them, its the biggest impact on their take home pay!!

Burnham the tax man! order-order.com/2026/09/28/r… #bbcbreakfast #r4today

John Healey has one job today. Cut welfare and fund defence. In my first week as Shadow Chancellor, I found the money to get defence spending to 3%. John Healey resigned because he knew defence spending needed to rise. This is his big test. Can we believe a word he says?

Burnham Says He Will Fight Next Election on Higher Taxes for ‘National Care Service’ #bbcnews #ITVnews order-order.com/2026/09/27/b… That is why it will not fly, too expensive, state run, will destroy growth and tank the economy

UK's Burnham Moves Toward Authoritarian Rule, and That Means Trouble for the U.S. #bbcbreakfast #r4today jihadwatch.org/2026/09/uks-b… The “National Centre for Information Defence“ is a canny name. It beats Old Joe Biden’s abortive “Disinformation Governance Board” in couching the whole totalitarian move as “defense” (as we spell it in the land of the free and the home of the brave) rather than “governance.” This is intended to give Burnham’s hapless citizenry the impression that what’s being done to them is not more control from the ruling elites, but protection from the evil machinations of deceivers.

French taxi drivers help migrants get to coast in secret #bbcbreakfast #r4today telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09… Cabbies charge £260 to transport asylum seekers to departure points without being caught by police

In 25 council areas, at least one in ten working age adults hold limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA) status. #bbcbreakfast #r4today Blackpool had the highest proportion of their population with LCWRA at 14.1 per cent, compared to an average of 8.3 per cent across the North West.

Our kids deserve better schools #bbcbreakfast #r4today rationaloptimistsociety.subs… We can give all kids superschools

New report: UK Gas security: The foundation of energy security #bbcBreakfast #r4today watt-logic.com/2026/09/27/ga… Britain’s gas system is more fragile, and gas’s role in the energy system more enduring, than current policy assumes. UK gas prices are set locally, not internationally, so domestic production directly affects what consumers pay. Gas is no longer the primary driver of rising bills, having been overtaken by network costs, and declining UKCS production outlook now threatens the viability of the pipeline infrastructure that carries it. Britain’s growing reliance on electricity imports compounds this risk, resting on an interconnector regime and neighbouring systems that cannot be assumed reliable under stress. With storage weak on both sides of the Channel and gas set to remain structurally necessary for decades, gas security is energy security and energy policy must treat it as such.

New report: Gas security: The foundation of energy security watt-logic.com/2026/09/27/ga…

It's depressing that time and again policymakers spout nonsense about gas markets and then use these misconceptions as the basis for policy My new report sets out in detail how gas markets actually work and why prices are not "global" Once you understand that there's not even a single European price never mind a single global price, and that UK gas prices now tend to be lower than European ones, it becomes obvious that we need to maximise UKCS production Yet we use pessimistic projections based on a highly hostile fiscal and regulatory landscape as "proof" the UKCS is on its last legs and is becoming irrelevant Alternative forecasts from @OEUK_ show significant upside potential if a more encouraging regime was adopted - the geology is the same but the economic context can be changed The first of my six recommendations is to fix the broken understanding of how the gas market actually works - do this and much of the rest becomes pretty clear #EnergySecurity @Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @griffitha @ColinMoynihanUK @HarrietCross_MP @Iromg @AllisonPearson @afneil @mattwridley @EdConwaySky @MerrynSW @mattotele @Jonathan__Leake @CitySamuel watt-logic.com/2026/09/27/ga…

Electricity 'Margin alerts in the shoulder months are not normal' #bbcnews #skynews

The wealthy person’s guide to fleeing Britain spectator.com/article/the-we… #bbcbreakfast #r4today

ESNZ Calls for More Net Zero Propaganda #r4today #bbcbreakfast davidturver.substack.com/p/e… Energy Security and Net Zero committee calls for more trusted messengers to combat misinformation.

#bbcbreakfast #LabourConference

Hope is not a strategy

Labour are going to 'seize' your property #bbcbreakfast #r4today

After Fairford Labour are on the case #bbcnews #ITVnews

To see how unusual our approach is, try to imagine another country taking it. Picture the Americans or the Chinese rushing to hand their territory to a state that had never owned it – that had, indeed, permanently renounced any claim to it – simply because a posse of Third Worldist judges had told them to. While our civil servants continue to promote their deal, @AndyBurnham can see how dreadful it looks. You don’t need to be a fulminating reactionary in a pith helmet to see what is wrong with betraying a poor, black, dispossessed population, and handing a pristine maritime conservation area to a country with a terrible record on biodiversity. This week, opposition has been voiced by Labour and Lib Dem MPs, by @TheNewsAgents and by The Independent. All ask why we should pay to give territory we already own to a country that is close to China. Burnham talks of Starmer’s deal as something he “inherited”: he, at least, gets the politics. At the same time, @EllieReeves, his impressive Attorney General, has quietly altered the rules to water down the obligation on government ministries to follow non-binding rulings by international tribunals, making it harder for Matrix Chambers types to pursue Mauritius’s claim through our domestic courts – the prospect held up by supporters of the deal as a reason to rush. There is an alternative. Ditch the deal and resettle the islands, allowing people of Chagossian descent to cultivate their old coconut plantations and tend their longfathers’ graves. Once the archipelago has a settled population, we can defend its right to self-determination as we do in Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands. An opportunity is coming soon. Next month, the House of Lords will vote on the British Sovereignty Protection (Chagos Islands) Bill, proposed by the independent @LordWeirDUP. Lord Weir, a barrister and former Stormont minister, wants to make it illegal to transfer ownership of the islands without the permission of Parliament and the diaspora Chagossian population. On democratic grounds, his case is unarguable, and my guess is that his bill will sail through the Lords, Labour peers being as unenthusiastic as anyone else about betraying Chagossians a second time. Burnham should back it and announce that the Government will promote Chagossian resettlement of the outer atolls – something that, while not cheap, is a fraction of what Starmer was proposing to pay Mauritius. As for Mauritius, its interest in the territory has only ever been pecuniary. Paying it to back our claim, rather than paying it to take our land, genuinely would be a worthwhile investment and an exercise of meaningful power. Me in the Telegraph. Paywall down. telegraph.co.uk/gift/0e9f3ba…